Bellydancing and the hora.
That’s just a little of what you missed if you let the “perpetual ocean mist” keep you in your house last night. The Underscore Orkestra — a Balkan, Klezmer, Gypsy Jazz and Swing band from Portland, OR — has played at La Paloma Sabanera before Monday night, and with any luck, they will stop by again.
This time around, the band added bellydancing, but was down a a Sousaphone. Some of the audience joined in the dancing; several of the spontaneous dancers came from the Always on Sunday international folk dance group that meets in Wethersfield.
For a rainy Monday night, you might expect a lot of empty seats, but it was actually a standing room only crowd. The band itself was so large that the trumpet player had to stand in front of the door.
The video below is from the Underscore Orkestra website:
